BBsitters Club
BBsitters Club is a rock band based in Chicago that features Doug Kaplan and Charlie Olvera on guitars and vocals, Max Allison on bass, and Paul Birhanu on drums. Adopting an equally combinatory and confounding approach to rock composition and live performance, the band makes progressive music that channels the goofy energy of a crew of close friends feeding off of each other and developing a shared language. BBsitters Club & Party, their first studio album, walks the line between earnest rock sincerity and tongue-in-cheek parody. With all instrumental tracks recorded live as a full band at Jamdek Recording Studio in Chicago, the album captures the excitement of BBsitters Club’s live shows and demonstrates the level of telepathic collaboration they’ve achieved over years of playing together out of the public eye.
In their songwriting, lyrics, and vocal arrangements, the band embraces and ridicules tropes that have sunk into the rock lexicon over the decades, all while loading their tracks with finely wrought details and technical flourishes. Veering between the realms of country-fried rock, angular post-punk, time signature-juggling math rock, unabashed Guitar Center shred, and some mutated form of the blues — to name just a few of the styles they try on — BBsitters Club make a case for the modern dissolution of genre as we know it, while guaranteeing that some vestige of the “rock band,” in all its absurd glory, remains intact.
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